分析哲学：幻想の歴史 Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion (Continuum Studies in Philosophy)

Preston, Aaron

Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.（2007/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826490032
• DDC分類 146.4

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Argues that analytic philosophy has never involved the kind of agreement on substantive philosophical views that one would expect of so successful a school of philosophy, and, thus, that it has always been in a state of crisis.

Full Description

One would expect that so successful and controversial a philosophical school as analytic philosophy would have a clear platform of substantive philosophical views. However, this is not so. For at least 30 years, analytic philosophy has consisted in an increasingly loose and variable amalgam of philosophical topics, views and methods. This state of affairs has led some to claim that, despite its professional entrenchment, analytic philosophy is in a state of crisis. Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion argues that this is so, and that the crisis is deeper and more longstanding than is usually recognized.
Synthesizing data from early and recent studies on the historical and philosophical foundations of analytic philosophy as well as from canonical primary texts, it argues (1) that analytic philosophy has never involved significant agreement on substantive philosophical views, and thus that it has always been in this state of crisis, (2) that this fact was long hidden by the illusion that analytic philosophy was originally united in the metaphilosophical thesis that philosophy is linguistic analysis, and (3) that both the rise of analytic philosophy under this illusion and the preservation of its privileged status since the illusion's demise have been facilitated by a scientistic 'stance' that minimizes the traditional philosophical duty to examine one's most fundamental assumptions.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Crises in analytic philosophy; 2. Analytic philosophy: conceptions and misconceptions; 3. Traditional philosophy; 4. The challenge of modern sciences; 5. Scientism in the emergence of analytic philosophy 1; 6. Scientism in the emergence of analytic philosophy 2; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.